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6th Annual Conference ~ Minneapolis

Academic Forum Basic Statistics Report 2012

Mark Carroll, U. C. DavisJohn T. Finnell, Regenstrief Institute

Nancy Roderer, Johns Hopkins UniversityChi-Ren Shyu, University of Missouri - Columbia

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Motivations

This survey is collecting critical basic program information for describing biomedical and health informatics education.

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Previous Efforts from Metric Committee

Joyce Mitchell, Juilo Cesar Facelli, Cindy Gadd, Josette Jones, Harold Lehmann, and Judy Warren.

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Survey Respondents

32 training units from 26 Universities and the NLM.

AMIA Academic Forum Member: 45-50

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21.9%

9.4%

9.4%

9.4%21.9%

28.1%

Administratively under which academic units

1. Independent Informatics De-partment

2. Interdisciplinary Institute

3. Interdisciplinary Research Center

4. Under non-informatics De-partment: Clinical or Basic Sci-ences5. Under non-informatics Depart-ment, but with distinctive presence, e.g., Division, Section

8. Other

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Those selected “Other”1. Under Informatics department. Health Informatics concentration in

Information Architecture and Knowledge Management Masters degree2. Combined Informatics and Information Management Department3. Interdisciplinary program reports to committee on graduate studies4. College of Health Sciences5. Part of the interdisciplinary education program6. Under non-informatics Department in engineering7. Joint master's degree program across the School of Information and School of Public Health8. Independent department, to become department in the College of Health Solutions as of 7/1/129. Interdepartmental Program

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Administratively under which academic College/School

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Those selected “Other”

Computing & Information Systems

College of Communication and Information

Reports to committee on graduate studies

College of Health Solutions, as of 7/1/12

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Reporting structure (check all that apply)

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Other Direct ReportCIOVice Chancellor of Graduate EducationDean of Health Solutions, as of 7/1/12Has been ProvostSenior Vice President for Health Sciences and Medical Center CEOVice Chancellor for ResearchExecutive Director, Health Sciences Library and Informatics CenterSteering Committee with members drawn from each sponsoring groupSenior Vice President for Health Affairs

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70.0%

30.0%

Authority to hire

Yes No

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60.0%

40.0%

Authority to recommend tenure and promotion

YesNo

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No tenure systemguarantee 75% of 9-month salary12 months appointments in Medical School. Salary support variable.no specific guaranteeGuarantee of 100% of 9-month salary.50% guarantee of a 12-month salaryEach tenured professor gets equivalent of the annual interest on a $2.5M endowed professorship

Various types of tenure systems

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6.7%

93.3%

Authority to offer bachelor degree(s) in in-formatics

YesNo

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Independent study degree in bioinformatics has been created on undergraduate campus

Health informatics and information management

Informatics is general no specialization, consider offering specialty/enrollment ~ 200

BS informatics degrees

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63.3%

36.7%

Authority to offer certificate(s) in informatics

YesNo

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Health informatics (5)Utilizing Extension for Certificate offering. Not through main program.Undergraduate certificate in health informatics in cooperation with the school of Information Studies.Graduate Certificate in Biomedical Informatics, with tracks in Clinical Informatics and Health Information ManagementCertificate in bioinformatics, certificate in clinical informaticsClinical leader/ public health leader/ privacy and security officer/ health information management and exchange/ EHR programmerHealth information technology (ONC categories)Nursing Informatics

Informatics certificate degrees

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63.3%

36.7%

Authority to offer research MS degree(s) in in-formatics

YesNo

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Biomedical Informatics (6)Health Informatics (5)Medical Sciences Interdisciplinary degree with Health Informatics ConcentrationClinical Informatics, Clinical Research Informatics, Public Health Informatics

Health informatics, bioinformatics, HCI

Computational Biology & Bioinformatics, Masters of Health Science (clinical informatics focus)MS in Information Architecture and Knowledge Management with concentration in Health Informatics

Informatics masters degrees

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66.7%

33.3%

Authority to offer professional or applied masters degree(s) in informatics

YesNo

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Biomedical Informatics (3)Handled through School of Continuing Studies in Medical Informaticshealth informatics track in master of health informatics and information managementHealth Informatics (6)MS in Nursing with speciality in Nurisng InformaticsClinical Informatics; Bioinformatics & Computational Biology; and Health Information ManagementMedical Sciences Interdisciplinary degree with Health Informatics ConcentrationClinical Informatics, Clinical Research Informatics, Public Health Informaticsbiomedical informatics (4)Health informatics, HCIMA in biomedical informatics, with emphasis on practicum, often in clinical informatics, but could be in any of the domains

Applied masters degrees in informatics

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53.3%46.7%

Authority to offer PhD degree(s) in informatics

YesNo

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PhD degrees in informatics

Biomedical Informatics, including clinical informatics and bioinformaticsPart of Health Sciences Integrated Program. focus on biomedical clinical and PH informaticsMedical Informatics - cooperative program with Engineering.Nursing Practice with a focus in nursing informaticsBiomedical Informatics, with tracks in: Clinical Informatics; Bioinformatics & Computational Biology; and Health Information ManagementInterdisciplinary degree, bioinformatics or health informatics. Biomedical InformaticsClinical Informatics, Clinical Research Informatics, Public Health Informatics, Bioinformatics, Translational Bioinformatics

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PhD degrees in informatics - More

Health informaticsbiomedical informaticsHealth informatics, bioinformatics, HCIBioinformatics, Health InformaticsBiomedical informatics, specializing in any of the domain areas (clinical informatics, computational biology, public health informatics, translational bioinformatics, clinical research informatics)Health InformaticsComputational Biology & Bioinformatics

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66.7%

33.3%

Authority to offer nondegree post-doc training in informatics

YesNo

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Faculty research areasMedical and Bioinformatics, CIS with Biomedical Informatics emphasisEmergency Medicine Informatics FellowshipBioinformatics, health informaticsClinical Informatics, Clinical Research Informatics, Public Health Informatics, Bioinformatics, Translational BioinformaticsBiomedical informatics, bioinformatics, health informatics, clinical informaticsBiomedical informaticsGeneral informaticsBiomedical informatics - clinical informatics, computational biology, public health informatics, translational bioinformatics, clinical research informaticsBiomedical informatics, bioinformatics, neuroinformatics

Nondegree post-doc training in informatics

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35.7%

64.3%

Authority to offer clinical informatics program

YesNo

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32In planning stages for clinical informatics subspecialty fellowship

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2-100

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Nursing Informatics 30

Enrollment of Clinical Informatics Program

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70.0%

30.0%

Do you offer any of your existing degree(s) or other program(s) via distance learning?

YesNo

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In planning 2012/13All courses offered in our MS programs are delivered via distance learning, including the 10x10All Certificate and MS classes are offered online.Certificate in Health InformaticsSCS-based masters. Also, collaborative distance education for some graduate coursesBachelor of Science in Health Informatics and Information ManagementMaster of Health Informatics and Information ManagementMaster's program is online and we have an 10x10 program onlineAll programs available online except PhD:10x10, Graduate Certificate, Master of Biomedical Informatics, Master of ScienceClinical Research Informatics 10x10Participate in master's in nursing and working on Short Course for industry

Distance learning programs

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Health informatics via on campus and distance learning.Certificate and professional MS degree and 10x10 through AMIA.HIT certificate program and several other informatics courses use blended (distance plus local) learning combined with team-based learning.

Selected courses are online

MS Nursing Informatics

Distance learning programs - more

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50.0%50.0%

Do you plan to offer one or more new degree(s) or program(s) within the next two years?

Yes No

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Non-thesis masters in clinical informatics coupled with subspecialty training leading to certification (for MDs)BSMS in Biomedical Informatics and HealthinformaticsHS Integrated program just approved a week ago. Plan to add research MS degree and postdoc.The Master of Health Informatics and Information Management is new, with the first students enrolling fall 2012.MS in Health AdministrationOur integrated, cross campus Biomedical Informatics Degree Program under the Graduate College is undergoing external review with the intent to begin operations this fall. The program consolidates a number of initiatives across campuses. The program will offer MS and PhD training with emphasis on either Bioinformatics or Health Informatics.

New degree programs in next two years

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Certificate, professional masters, online programs.Certificate (Clinical Informatics)MS in Informatics—distancePhD in Clinical Informatics--on campusClinical informatics fellowshipMedical subspecialty training in clinical informaticsGraduate Certificate Program in bioinformatics, Professional Science Master in bioinformaticsSubspecialty training leading to certification (proposed for MDs) on campus.subspecialty training leading for certification (for MDs)

New degree programs in next two years

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No NLM NSF ONC0.0%

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Do you have federal training grant?

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Fogarty International Center (NIH)

US Department of Education

National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) in computational biology

Other training grants

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Number of faculty with primary appointments in your unit

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Number of faculty with secondary appointments in your unit

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Number of administrative support staff

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Number of research/technical support staff

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What’s next?

What else the academic forum members want to see?

Should we make it an annual event? Mandatory?

A database to share the educational models for the Forum members

A searchable FAQ knowledge base for emerging program builders